Past tense of sadden
regular verb
The past tense of sadden is saddened. The past participle is also saddened.
Forms of sadden
| Base form (V1) | sadden /ˈsædən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | saddened |
| Past participle (V3) | saddened |
| Present participle | saddening |
| Third person singular | saddens |
Saddened in a sentence
- I was saddened that you felt so little for me.
- In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.From the entry heartless
- We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.From the entry deplorable
- His homecoming was saddened by the news of his mother's death the day before.From the entry homecoming
Meaning of sadden
- verb To make sad or unhappy.
- verb To become sad or unhappy.
- verb To darken a color during dyeing.
Questions about the past tense of sadden
- What is the past tense of sadden?
- The past tense of sadden is saddened.
- What is the past participle of sadden?
- The past participle of sadden is saddened.
- Is sadden a regular or irregular verb?
- Sadden is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sadden (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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